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Categoryspiritualism – The Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling, which brings together researchers from different disciplines and geographies, presents modern spiritualism in different contexts. Bringing together the spiritism movement and its particular Franco-Latin American currents, the articles explore the beginnings of 19th-century séances and trance media.

Channelling, the heir to spiritualism that began in the 1970s and continues to develop, is brought into direct conversation with its predecessors with the aim of showing both continuity and differentiation as products of new cultural and religious needs. The handbook is the first comprehensive collection of these two interrelated movements, and in each case examines such themes as gender, race, performance, and technology.

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Cathy Gutierrez, Ph.D. (2000) is a professor of religion at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, USA. He has published publications on spiritualism and related esoteric worldviews in the 19th century as well as millennialism and emerging religions. His most recent work is a monograph, Plato’s Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance (Oxford UP, 2011).

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Volume contributors: Adam Crabtree, Mary Keller, Cathy Gutierrez, Marlene Tromp, Lynn Sharp, John Patrick Deveney, Elizabeth Lowry, Darryl V. Caterine, Waleska de Araújo Aureliano, Vânia Zikán Cardoso, Arthur Versluis, Christa Rapsko, John War Jeremy Monroe , Hugh Urban, Ruth Bradby, Adam Klin-Oron, Christopher Partridge, Jeffrey Kripal, Douglas E. Cowan, Michael Barkun, and Catherine L. Albanese

“Reading the contents of The Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling is like watching a Who’s Who? of 19th- and 20th-century studies of contact with disembodied beings.”

All are interested in spiritualism, channeling and related currents such as Theosophy and New Age religions. Complete introductions for new students and reviews for teachers and professionals on the state of the field….belief in the phenomena of spiritualism is very universal. In fact, it is famous. Belief is common. It is widespread. It occurs in all kinds of people from the highest to the lowest. You can find it in Mayfair and you can find it in the most remote villages.

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By the end of 1919, belief in spiritualism was “spreading like wildfire.” Spiritism is defined as a relatively modern religion based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and both have the propensity and ability to communicate with the living. And as Edward Cecil noted in an article in The Globe on December 29, 1919, as the decade of the 1920s drew to a close, belief in spiritualism was “widespread among women, and gaining ground among men.”

This was the beginning of the revival of spiritualism in the 1920s. And in this special, using newspapers taken from The Archive, we try to understand the phenomenon of the revival of spiritualism in Great Britain in the 1920s and how it became popular with adherents across the country and in different societies.

In the early 1920s, the nation was fascinated by the so-called “Haunted House” in Aberdeen, 1 Gordon Place. In the house where Mr Urquhart, his wife and son lived, there were “alarming noises in the walls and floor”, prompting local spiritualists to investigate, as reported by the Aberdeen Press and Journal.

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The mystery of the knockings was solved soon after the session “to the satisfaction of the spiritual.”

…the medium passed under the supervision of an Irish guide who had often influenced him then, and was a regular visitor to the Aberdeen sessions at this time last year. We asked the guide if there was any way he could respond to any disruptions, and he said, “Sure and fine, I’ll do my best.” Resuming his Irish brogue, he faintly described the spirit of an old man in the room, who was in a very agitated state and was walking about the apartment.

Immediately, Mr. Urquhart “recognized the apparition as his father.” His father, a commercial traveler, had died about six years earlier. And on his deathbed, he called his son, but died before he could deliver the last message.

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Meanwhile, the Irish guide left the media, and the room was quiet. That was until Mr. Urquhart’s son John, who was sleeping, sat up and said suddenly:

Is that so! Father father I know what a forehead is; this is gradda telling you to take care of grandma…

It was said that the atmosphere in the room “changed” and everyone present was “assured that there would be no more knocking” now that Mr Urquhart senior had finally delivered his important message.

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The apparition proves Sir A. Conan Doyle’s theory that the knocks are just the ringing of a psychic telephone bell, and once the message is delivered, the calling of the spirit ceases.

With advocates such as the famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it is no wonder that spiritualism is gaining widespread belief. Mr. and Mrs. Urquhart were converted and stated that after the session they had become “convinced spiritualists.” And as Edward Cecil told The Globe, “every convert to Spiritualism is more or less enthusiastic. An enthusiastic convert spreads his own enthusiasm.

As belief in spiritualism grew with the help of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other supporters such as Mr. and Mrs. Urquhart, newspapers reported more and more miraculous occurrences from séances across the country.

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Reported in a “Mystery Light” seance conducted by Ada Bessinet (1890-1936), an American spiritualist medium. The session held in London was attended by Ernest Duxbury, who told about his extraordinary experience.

I clearly recognized the face and the figure wrapped in white that reached to the waist. The other people sitting saw it too. Then I felt touched, this was a sign that someone wanted to talk to me. The light brightened for a few seconds, and I could clearly see the woman’s pale face, as if she were sleeping. However, I couldn’t recognize it and said so. Some of the sitters said it was the face of a beautiful young woman.

It was more than the knock experienced at Aberdeen House. Here is a physical manifestation, it can really be so

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Through the sitters who somehow managed to touch and communicate what was supposed to be otherworldly.

Meanwhile, Duxbury enjoys the extraordinary events around the table, but he has his own hunch about what’s going on. He leaned over and asked:

The “Josephine” I am thinking of is a beautiful woman who died twenty-seven years ago, at the age of twenty-five. I never knew or saw him in my life and just happened to see a photo of him about three days before the session. . . I have known her only living sibling for many years who told me a lot about her sister Josephine.

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Contains not the slightest doubt, no doubt, of the truth of the Duxbury story. What happened in the sessions now fills the newspaper columns as news and is reported alongside all the other news of the day. But not all accepted or believed in spiritism, but were quick to attack and oppose its rise.

Criticism of the spiritism movement came mainly from different Christian denominations, and such criticism was also presented in periodicals and newspapers. For example, Reverend J. Hutler preached a sermon at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Malmesbury, reported in the North Wilts Herald in January 1920, just a week after the Aberdeen case had been “solved”.

Hutler spoke of how spiritualism was “one of the most dangerous practices and beliefs in which it is possible for the human mind to indulge”, and warned how mediums and séances “constituted a colossal deception”.

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Popular spiritualism is not new. It is as old as man himself, and is a very ancient doctrine of deception and evil imagination.

In fact, Spiritualism in its 1920s form is nothing new, as the Reverend Herbert Thurston told an audience in Edinburgh in a talk entitled “Spiritualism – Its Fruits and Fallacies:”

…he gave an interesting account of the history of the modern spiritualist movement, which he said was founded in 1848 by two sisters named Fox, who lived on a small farm in Hydeville, America, and showed how this is correct. initial. is fraud without truth.

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In fact, the Fox sisters, Margaretta and Leah, managed to convince the world with their “rappas” that they could communicate with the dead, thus starting the Spiritualism movement. Years later, however, Margaretta admitted that their “plastering” was a sham, and the siblings died in poverty. So it is not surprising that the clergy warned of the dangers of deception and lies in the world of spiritism.

In March 1920 it was Roman Catholic Bishop G. Graham who linked the rise of spiritualism to Josephine’s stories which appeared in the Dundee Courier:

There was also a love of romance and sensation, which was the most attractive and popular part of spiritualism. You can’t imagine anything more ridiculous than the bigotry that appeared in the Sunday papers on this subject…

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The love of the novel and the sensation is, however

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